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Chinese citizens flush with cash from their booming economy will find it easier to vacation in the U.S. following a long-awaited agreement that the American travel industry hopes will bring in billions of dollars.
Yahoo Inc., reeling from a growing backlash over human rights and its China operations, settled a lawsuit Tuesday that accused it of illegally helping the Chinese government jail and torture two journalists.
Recalls of millions of unsafe toys may be part of the price of Americans buying products manufactured in China under sweatshop conditions or by forced prison labor, worker advocates told a Senate panel.
A painting inspired by the 1989 crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests has become the most expensive work by a Chinese contemporary artist ever sold at auction, Sotheby's auction house said.
Assailants detonated a powerful remote-control bomb and opened fire on a convoy carrying Chinese workers in southern Pakistan Thursday, killing at least 13 Pakistanis and injuring about 30, police and doctors said.
Gunmen opened fire in a factory in this northwestern Pakistani city on Sunday, killing three Chinese workers, police said.
Anna Lo doesn't fit into the straitjacket of Northern Ireland politics. She's not a Protestant or a Catholic — and her Belfast brogue comes with a Cantonese twist.
A Chinese couple who lost custody of their baby daughter after putting her in what they said was temporary foster care with an American family won their heartbreaking, seven-year legal battle Tuesday to get her back.
US technology firms including Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have come under fire for allegedly helping China monitor suspected dissidents.
After more than a decade of flying back and forth from Shanghai to Los Angeles, this week Sheng Yuan didn't fly back. Instead Yuan, 39, a pilot with China Eastern Airlines, said he ditched his crew in Los Angeles and broke the news by phone to his wife and 12-year-old daughter in Shanghai.
Things add up differently for native English speakers compared with people who learned Chinese as a first language.
Canada's Federal Court on Thursday stayed the deportation of one of China's most-wanted men after the alleged smuggling kingpin claimed in a last-ditch appeal he would be tortured or executed if returned to his homeland.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology took down a history course Web page after Chinese students complained about a 19th century wood-print image of Japanese soldiers beheading Chinese prisoners.
Zhang Dan crashed to the ice with her legs split wide, a brutal fall that drew gasps from the crowd. She limped off the ice doubled over in pain, seemingly finished.
A Yahoo Inc. unit provided information that led to an eight-year prison sentence for a Chinese dissident, an advocacy group for journalists said Wednesday, which would be at least the second time the company has aided Chinese authorities in their crackdown on protesters.
BEIJING — American and Chinese regulators signed an agreement Tuesday to strengthen regulation of drugs and medical devices exported to the United States.
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As the Rudd government puts its collective feet under the table, Australia's education establishment should grab the opportunity of having the country's first Mandarin-speaking prime minister to push the teaching of Chinese studies in Australian schools.
THE family of a widow who left most of her £10million fortune to the owners of a Chinese restaurant are fighting to overturn her will.
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton Friday slammed China for calling her criticism of made-in-China toys "slander," and urged Washington to take "immediate, decisive steps" to protect US children.
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After a three-year effort and untold quantities of water, Chinese firefighters have extinguished a fire that had been burning underground in a coalmine for more than 50 years.
Magnolia could hold the key to sweet-smelling breath. Research shows that extract of magnolia bark has powerful anti-bacterial properties, swiftly dispatching the bugs behind halitosis.
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...For two years, journalist Shi Tao has been confined in a Chinese prison for the contents of an e-mail. On Nov. 6, Yahoo (YHOO, news, msgs) CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang answered to Congress for his company's role in landing Tao behind bars....
U.S. safety officials have recalled about 4.2 million Chinese-made Aqua Dots bead toys that contain a chemical that has caused some children to vomit and become comatose after swallowing them.
Industrial discharge and household wastewater have polluted a northern Chinese river so badly that the water—dark red in some sections—has caused chronic illnesses among villagers, a government publication reported.
Global citizenship, for the next generation, will be more important than regional affiliation and one of its preconditions is multilingualism.
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"I couldn't decide between CRYMPH or DLECH," said Chengdu high school student Mingmei Lee. "I know they both mean beautiful flower dancing in the wind in American, but I can't decide what looks prettier."
Scientists in the United Kingdom have "decoded" the inscrutable language of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), revealing its strong chemical foundation in a way that may help scientists mine age-old Chinese medicines to develop tomorrow's new drugs.
From the article: An advocacy group for Asian Americans has lashed out at recent media scrutiny of several hundred thousand dollars in contributions that Hillary Clinton raised in New York's Chinatown.
Ohio has released a "Language Roadmap for the 21st Century," an unprecedented plan to jump-start the state's "sputtering economy" by teaching young children to speak Chinese, Arabic and Spanish. From the article:
A defiant Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says she has no intention of curtailing her fundraising in the Chinese community despite reports that she accepted cash from dozens of questionable donors in Chinatown earlier this year.
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs is calling Yahoo! chief executive Jerry Yang to a hearing on 6 November to explain why the company lied to Congress in early 2006 about its knowledge of the investigation into Chinese journalist Shi Tao.
A VERY comprehensive list of recalled toys. This is a must read for anyone who plans on buying presents for children this Christmas.
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